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Ask HN: A Social Media for Programmers

5 pointsjaprozs9 comments

I want to build a social media for programmers and just wanted to know wether people would even want something like that. I was thinking that each user could upload either a text post or an image post and the app could contains sub groups of various topics like AI, webdev, UI/UX etc. each user could also add a programming language flair of some sort and this could also be a nice way for employers to find quality programmers. The app can also have various themes to customise/personalise the look of the app for your device.

It could also have a section with tech and programming news, kinda like HN

What do u guys think of this app?

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I'm trying to imagine a "Facebook for programmers" and it doesn't play out well in my mind. The closest thing I use is a selected set of subreddits as a multireddit that has some programming languages and programming topics. Other than that HN has good discussions with posts being semi-related initiators. I'm not interested in any social aspects other than the discussions themselves, though I imagine with repeated discussions with the same people there would be a sense of community which seems about the right amount of socializing for me.

We have LinkedIn and it has turned out to be a shitshow for everyone except marketroids and recruiterons. Any specialized social network is going to get polluted with people looking to hire subjects of that network, while those same people hold little or no qualifications to be on that network themselves.

Sure. Launch the mvp and share it on Show HN.

How will it be different from the competition?

Why would I want to go there? For example Blind makes you use your work email which I guess some people think makes it more “legit” knowing it’s all tech ppl while Reddit makes it easy for anyone to participate in a niche topic like AI or even more niche like some specific field within AI. The barrier to entry there is super low.

Isn't what Dev.to already does ?

A social Media for Programmers in my eyes would be GitHub with some kind of a share feed so that everybody can post their Gists or Pictures of their nerdy stuff.

Eh just dont reinvent the wheel, hook it into Mastadon (or something similar) at the very least.

Considering no Mastadon sites are mainstream and there's multiple examples of independent sites being mainstream (including github), I am not sure this is good advice.

> It could also have a section with tech and programming news, kinda like HN

HN is already a social media for programmers. Github too, reddit, stackoverflow.

Twitter, Mastodon too

blind exists already. your target audience is a bunch of introverts, not sure how that's going to fare. there's like an existential crisis post on blind almost every day. these folks aren't looking for more ways to be insecure and hateful towards society

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